Couldn't receive discounts for the railroads: The Elkins Act attacked rebates given to certain corporations to ship their items while farmers and small businesses were paying full price to ship their goods.
The Elkins Act made rebates or discounts for the railroad illegal. It required that everyone pay the same rate to use the rail lines preventing inequities in the transportation cost and imbalanced treatment. The high prices were putting smaller businesses and farmers out of business while larger corporations were shipping more cheaply.
If you look at the map of Africa, many borders are straight lines. (compare it to the borders in Europe, for example). However, Africa was not an empty land, but full of cultures and ethnic groups, and those groups were split when the straight lines were drawn and some groups hostile to each other were put in the same country. This created ethnic tensions
Answer:
All the above are effects of globalization.
Globalization affects my life both positively and negatively.
Positive effects
I buy imported goods in stores.
I communicate with people in other countries.
I use websites from other countries.
I shop at businesses owned by people from other countries.
Negative effects
Job insecurity where people in developed countries lose jobs due to outsourcing.
Fluctuation in prices: Due to increased competition favored by globalization, businesses are forced to lower their prices for them to fit the competition.
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